SPOILER ALERT!<\/p>\n
So Lost<\/em> ends with the sacrifice of someone with bloody hands and feet and a wound in his side.\u00a0 Whereupon everyone, including everyone who died in the series,\u00a0 ends up in a church\u2013complete with a statue of Jesus\u2013where they forgive each other, are reconciled, and experience a joyous reunion.\u00a0 The door opens and they walk out into the light.<\/p>\n I can\u2019t remember any<\/em> prime time series with so much explicit, overt Christianity.\u00a0 It\u2019s given in symbols, but symbols are far more evocative than prose in a work of art.\u00a0\u00a0 In addition to the Baptismal imagery that ran throughout the series, we also had in the last episodes Holy Communion imagery, with the mysterious God-figure saying \u201ctake this cup, and you\u2019ll be like me.\u201d<\/p>\n Pundits were saying that Lost <\/em>has unique significance for our culture at this time in our history, to the point of proposing that the first decade of the 21st century\u2013lacking a good name so far\u2013be called \u201cthe Lost<\/em> decade.\u201d\u00a0 So what does it mean that it takes Christianity to resolve all of those intractable problems and unravel all of that confusion?<\/p>\n More importantly, the ending shows that traditional Christian concepts and imagery still have a powerful resonance in a Lost <\/em>world.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" SPOILER ALERT! So Lost ends with the sacrifice of someone with bloody hands and feet and a wound in his side.\u00a0 Whereupon everyone, including everyone who died in the series,\u00a0 ends up in a church\u2013complete with a statue of Jesus\u2013where they forgive each other, are reconciled, and experience a joyous reunion.\u00a0 The door opens and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1281,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[1322,1323],"class_list":["post-5633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-television","tag-lost","tag-lost-finale"],"yoast_head":"\n